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Sessho-maru: stupid human.

Ochita: human…reh?

Sessho-maru: you're not human?

Ochita: Nope.

Sessho-maru: Than what are you?

Ochiat: (deranged) XD your worst nightmare biatch!

Brain over Brawn

In Tokyo, at the Higurashi shrine, a girl with dark black/red/purple hair up in a twisted style atop her head and snake green eyes stood in her black loose/slim jeans, black studded belt, olive green shirt, fishnet gloves, rainbow sandals, and a duffle-bag flung over her shoulder having just got off of work as a house cleaner. Looking up at the sunny blue sky she reached in her pocket and pulled out some sunglasses and set them on her face. A 17 year old child prodigy, who had come to grad-school in Japan majoring in Physics, but today, was playing tourist and walking around aimlessly. The American girl sighed dejectedly as the old man played tour guide in front of the whole group, leading them around as if it were Heian Palace.

Staring about something caught her eye; a girl, a little younger than herself, with a giant backpack, lugging said object into a small shack like house. Watching her go in the 17 year old decided to follow…why not? The tour was getting pretty boring, especially when the old man tried to beat the fat white cat off of an artifact. Sauntering over she followed, the old wooden door creaking open slowly. Following some dusty footprints the physicist-to-be strode down some rickety steps and looked over the edge of an old oak well, it's sides rough with splinters, a piece of green cloth from the school girls skirt snagged to the rim.

Gazing over the frame of the well the bronze skinned, green eyed scientist searched for any sign of her recent subject, not finding anyone so beginning to worry. Climbing over the edge the young woman began to scale the wall slowly, the cobblestones making good footholds. But because the well was so old one of her foot holds collapsed beneath her and she fell, eyes widening when a bright violet light began to emanate from the ground. Hitting the ground with a thud and a grunt the tall American shook the discombobulated feeling from her head, sitting up and staring at a now blue sky that hung above.

Did I go through some type of tunnel?

Trying to orient herself she clambered to her feet and stood, deciding it would be best if she climbed out of the well via the vines that crawled up the walls. Reaching the top she grasped the edge of the well and swung her legs over, resting there, staring up at the beautiful giant tree…

Isn't that the same tree as the one at the shrine?

The girl strode forward and touched the bark, searching around for the root pattern and finding a familiar scar that the old tour guide had told some corny story about. Something about a kid being tacked to it with an arrow half a millennium ago. But strangely enough the scar on the bark looked very…new.

I've gone through a tesseract. KEWL!

A huge grin broke out across her face as she calculated the time the wound had been inflicted upon the wood.

I'm not one for Horticulture but I'd say that that's around 40-50 years old so the year should be around the late 15 hundreds…wow.

Green eyes sparkling the girl decided to head out for the forest, completely forgetting how dangerous it was to wander around in the past, usually the thought that she could seriously upset the future coming to mind.

Strolling around in the dark green of the grass and leaves she began thinking of how she'd tried to use the entanglement theory to form one of these but it didn't work…she couldn't figure out how to harness it. Looking up she saw a bunch of birds flying around there dark feathers shinning in the sunlight that filtered through the trees. Turning back towards the ground she looked at the mossy forest floor, the small critters that were skittering around in and out of the dirt. Curving her lips into a smile she jogged forward and explored around until the sun went down. Beginning to worry she ran into the mouth of a cave listening to the thunder and ran flow down.

"Grrrrrr."

Wow, I must be really hungry…wait a sec…

Laughing nervously the young girl turned around to see what made the growling noise noticing a giant…cat.

o.0;

Uh…nice kitty, kitty, kitty.

"What are you doing in my cave creature?" The tiger demon raged as it ran at her.

Spinning around the scientist sprinted from the cave, running through the rain, the water splashing on her feet. Jumping over a fallen tree she ripped through the underbrush growing from the packed soil, leaping about to through the feline from her trail. The cat got confused but still persisted. Breaking out into the clearing, heading for the mountain in the distance, she began panting. The ground became more sturdy and rocky, but also more brittle, cracking beneath her footsteps but mixing into mud as well as deposits of limestone on the underside of the dirt.

These landmarks suggest much rain. I see the side of the mountain to the right and I've been passing an edge. There is one tree very close to the edge of that pit with the rock overhang of stalactites so that means…I sure as hell hope this works.

Dropping back the girl let the tiger catch up, so that she was the only object in its view.

"I'm going to kill you, you disgusting creature!"

"Give it your best shot ya frikken hairball!" The usually quiet girl shouted back with a sneering laugh.

After, which the girl jumped off the edge and into the pit, catching onto a root sticking out of the side. The cat dove over and a sickening puncture sound was heard as the tiger was impaled by the stalagmites in the bottom of the pit. Scrambling up the side of the roots, soon scaling the tree, then falling out onto the safe side she grumbled a word not to be repeated by any self-respecting woman before getting up with an aggravated groan.

Shivering the green eyed girl sighed and trudged back into the forest, arms wrapped around her, heading back to the cave where she dropped her bag. Once there, she grabbed it, and, not wanting to take the risk that some of the tiger demon's family was inside said establishment she jogged into the forest and climbed an extremely large cedar tree, sitting on the top of the trunk where the limbs branched out from the center, still quivering as drops of water landed on her head, dotting on her nose causing her to sneeze then curse at the thought of receiving a nasty cold. Pneumonia was the last thing the girl wanted to catch out in the middle of feudal Tokyo…Edo…Japan-whatever, just down some tesseract where she couldn't get a good old physician to piece together her lungs.

When in the seventh g'damn hell did tigers start talking Japanese? Wait a minute…isn't there something about talking animals being possessed or just demons or something back in the old days of Japan? I think I heard something up in Nara about it. Great, five hundred years into the past with only a semester of Mythology under my belt and Windex in my duffle bag. To bad I didn't take a pistol to shoot myself in the head with. Oh well, one bad encounter with 'Garfield' back there is not what I call life threatening now that its in the past…no pun intended. Shit! The water is gonna wash away my tracks…I'll be lucky if I know left from right tomorrow.

Shaking her head she leaned back in the tree and sighed wistfully, wishing she hadn't got so excited in the first place, knowing perfectly well that the portal through the fifth dimension would be open until the Apocalypse…but nooooooo, she had to just start wandering around out in the middle of nowhere/nowhen Japan and almost get eaten my a deranged form of Tigger.

Damn my frikken sense of adventure. Damn my frikken sense of direction. And damn me; Damn Marisol(me) into the ninth circle of hell and back.

Quietly the shoji door opened to lead out onto the balcony and a figure dressed in white strode out into the quiet air of the night. Gazing at the silvery moon with deep amber-golden eyes his mind named the constellations idly, not in the mood to be bothered by anything above trivial at the moment, wanting nothing more than to be left in solitude for the rest his life. He wasn't in the mood for killing or maiming as he so often was, and his ward had been put to sleep, the state seeming to be the only time he could get the child out of his hair.His alabaster face reflected an almost silvery huge cast from the moonlight onto his pristine features; that of an angel yet the man having the personality of a devil…or demon of which he was.

The lord stood there, thoughts passing slowly as the time seemed to around him. The turquoise lunar chart on his forehead was a crescent a mirror image of the current state of the slivery sphere in the sky, the magenta stripes on his face darkening to a deeper purple from the lack of light. His lips curved down in the ghost of a frown as he thought of the days events; being pressured once again into some type of political marriage that was 'for his own good' as the elders had put it. The crude silk demoness, a duchess from the south, had done all but physically thrown herself at him in public…in private she hadn't hesitated to do so. True, she was beautiful, shapely, feminine, everything any man in his right mind would usually want but…

She's a ditz.

He sighed dejectedly, momentarily wondering if there were something wrong with himself but soon remembering who he was and that gave a huge boost to regaining his normal superiority complex.

Then his nose caught a scent causing him to crease his finely arched brow and concentrate. Tilting his head up, he inhaled, catching a whiff of death, floating across his land.

A tiger demon has entered my lands…and died on them…no…he was murdered…a suggestion of a violent death…this means I'll have to look into that tomorrow.

"This Sessho-maru will not tolerate trespassers." He murmured quietly before turning back to his room, readying himself to go to bed, awaiting a good brawl in the morning with anticipation.

Review Onegai! I would be pleased very muchly soooooooo! Domo for reading I hope you enjoyed it! (If not I am terribly sorry for wasting your time) Next time: A bad encounter with a very irritated taiyokai!